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Volume 41

Public Law 66–167

To authorize the construction and maintenance of a bridge across Detroit River within or near the city limits of Detroit, Michigan.

Approved March 4, 1921

Statutory text

An Act

To authorize the construction and maintenance of a bridge across Detroit River within or near the city limits of Detroit, Michigan.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

That the consent of Congress

Detroit River.

American Transit Company may bridge, Detroit, Mich.

is hereby granted to American Transit Company, its successors and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge and approaches thereto across Detroit River at a point suitable to the interests of navigation, within or near the city limits of Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled “An

Construction.

Vol. 34, p. 84.

Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters,” approved March 23, 1906: Provided, That before the construction

Proviso.

Consent of Canada required.

of the said bridge shall be begun all proper and requisite authority therefor shall be obtained from the Government of the Dominion of Canada.

Sec. 2.

That this Act shall be null and void if actual construction

Commencement and completion.

of the bridge herein authorized be not commenced within three years and completed within seven years from the date of approval hereof.

Sec. 3.

That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby

Amendment.

expressly reserved.

Approved, March 4, 1921.

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